Deuteronomy 23:14

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

For the LORD your God walks about in the middle of your camp to deliver you and defeat your enemies for you. Therefore your camp should be holy, so that he does not see anything indecent among you and turn away from you.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 26:12 : 12 I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.
  • Gen 17:1 : 1 The Sign of the Covenant When Abram was 99 years old, the LORD appeared to him and said,“I am the Sovereign God. Walk before me and be blameless.
  • Exod 3:5 : 5 God said,“Do not approach any closer! Take your sandals off your feet, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”
  • 2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what mutual agreement does the temple of God have with idols? For we are the temple of the living God, just as God said,“I will live in them and will walk among them, and I will be their God, and they will be my people.”

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    9Purity in Personal Hygiene When you go out as an army against your enemies, guard yourselves against anything impure.

    10If there is someone among you who is impure because of some nocturnal emission, he must leave the camp; he may not reenter it immediately.

    11When evening arrives he must wash himself with water and then at sunset he may reenter the camp.

    12You are to have a place outside the camp to serve as a latrine.

    13You must have a spade among your other equipment and when you relieve yourself outside you must dig a hole with the spade and then turn and cover your excrement.

  • Num 31:24-25
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    75%

    24You must wash your clothes on the seventh day, and you will be ceremonially clean, and afterward you may enter the camp.’”

    25The Distribution of Spoils Then the LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Josh 7:12-13
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    12The Israelites are unable to stand before their enemies; they retreat because they have become subject to annihilation. I will no longer be with you, unless you destroy what has contaminated you.

    13Get up! Ritually consecrate the people and tell them this:‘Ritually consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, because this is what the LORD God of Israel has said,“You are contaminated, O Israel! You will not be able to stand before your enemies until you remove what is contaminating you.”

  • Deut 20:4
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    4for the LORD your God goes with you to fight on your behalf against your enemies to give you victory.”

  • Deut 28:9
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    9The LORD will designate you as his holy people just as he promised you, if you keep his commandments and obey him.

  • Num 5:2-4
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    74%

    2“Command the Israelites to expel from the camp every leper, everyone who has a discharge, and whoever becomes defiled by a corpse.

    3You must expel both men and women; you must put them outside the camp, so that they will not defile their camps, among which I live.”

    4So the Israelites did so, and expelled them outside the camp. As the LORD had spoken to Moses, so the Israelites did.

  • Num 31:19
    73%

    19Purification After Battle“Any of you who has killed anyone or touched any of the dead, remain outside the camp for seven days; purify yourselves and your captives on the third day, and on the seventh day.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Deut 1:33
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    33the one who would go before you on the way to find places for you to camp, appearing in a fire at night and in a cloud by day to show you the way you ought to go.

  • Deut 29:11
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    11your infants, your wives, and the resident foreigners living in your encampment, those who chop wood and those who carry water–

  • Deut 1:30
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    30The LORD your God is about to go ahead of you; he will fight for you, just as you saw him do in Egypt

  • Num 14:14
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    14then they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that you, LORD, are among this people, that you, LORD, are seen face to face, that your cloud stands over them, and that you go before them by day in a pillar of cloud and in a pillar of fire by night.

  • Lev 16:28
    72%

    28and the one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

  • Exod 23:23
    72%

    23For my angel will go before you and bring you to the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, and I will destroy them completely.

  • Josh 6:18
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    18But be careful when you are setting apart the riches for God. If you take any of it, you will make the Israelite camp subject to annihilation and cause a disaster.

  • Josh 22:19
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    19But if your own land is impure, cross over to the LORD’s own land, where the LORD himself lives, and settle down among us. But don’t rebel against the LORD or us by building for yourselves an altar aside from the altar of the LORD our God.

  • Deut 18:12-13
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    12Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.

    13You must be blameless before the LORD your God.

  • Lev 11:44
    71%

    44for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground,

  • Deut 13:17
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    17You must not take for yourself anything that has been placed under judgment. Then the LORD will relent from his intense anger, show you compassion, have mercy on you, and multiply you as he promised your ancestors.

  • Deut 2:7
    71%

    7All along the way I, the LORD your God, have blessed your every effort. I have been attentive to your travels through this great wilderness. These forty years I have been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

  • Deut 9:3
    71%

    3Understand today that the LORD your God who goes before you is a devouring fire; he will defeat and subdue them before you. You will dispossess and destroy them quickly just as he has told you.

  • Lev 20:23
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    23You must not walk in the statutes of the nation which I am about to drive out before you, because they have done all these things and I am filled with disgust against them.

  • Josh 23:3
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    3You saw everything the LORD your God did to all these nations on your behalf, for the LORD your God fights for you.

  • Lev 20:7
    71%

    7Exhortation to Holiness and Obedience“‘You must sanctify yourselves and be holy, because I am the LORD your God.

  • Deut 6:15
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    15for the LORD your God, who is present among you, is a jealous God and his anger will erupt against you and remove you from the land.

  • Num 14:43
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    43For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and you will fall by the sword. Because you have turned away from the LORD, the LORD will not be with you.”

  • Isa 52:11
    71%

    11Leave! Leave! Get out of there! Don’t touch anything unclean! Get out of it! Stay pure, you who carry the LORD’s holy items!

  • Josh 23:11
    70%

    11Watch yourselves carefully! Love the LORD your God!

  • Deut 31:3
    70%

    3As for the LORD your God, he is about to cross over before you; he will destroy these nations before you and you will dispossess them. As for Joshua, he is about to cross before you just as the LORD has said.

  • Num 35:34
    70%

    34Therefore do not defile the land that you will inhabit, in which I live, for I the LORD live among the Israelites.”

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    11which you commanded us through your servants the prophets with these words:‘The land that you are entering to possess is a land defiled by the impurities of the local residents! With their abominations they have filled it from one end to the other with their filthiness.

  • Deut 13:4
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    4You must follow the LORD your God and revere only him; and you must observe his commandments, obey him, serve him, and remain loyal to him.

  • Lev 26:12
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    12I will walk among you, and I will be your God and you will be my people.

  • Lev 15:31
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  • Exod 23:27
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    27“I will send my terror before you, and I will alarm all the people whom you encounter; I will make all your enemies turn their backs to you.

  • Deut 26:19
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    19Then he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor. You will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he has said.

  • Deut 6:19
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    19and that you may drive out all your enemies just as the LORD said.

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    2For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth.

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    24For I will drive out the nations before you and enlarge your borders; no one will covet your land when you go up to appear before the LORD your God three times in the year.

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    34And the cloud of the LORD was over them by day, when they traveled from the camp.